Teen arrested in 2007 fatal shooting

San Diego  Homicide investigators in southeastern San Diego arrested a man on Thursday who is suspected in a 2007 fatal shooting when he was 15.

The name of the suspect, who is now 18, was not released by authorities.

He was arrested Thursday morning at his home in the Jamacha/Lomita neighborhood, said police homicide squad Lt. Ernie Herbert.

The man is suspected of shooting Vidal Balderas Jr., 32, during a struggle in front of Balderas’ home on Coolwater Drive in the Skyline neighborhood on Oct. 31, 2007.

Neighbors called police about 7:50 p.m. after hearing several gunshots. Officers started CPR on Balderas until paramedics arrived, but he died before he could be taken to a hospital.

Witnesses told officers they saw Balderas struggling with someone who then shot him several times and ran away, Herbert said.

Herbert gave no information about a possible motive for the shooting or the evidence that led investigators to the man they arrested.

The night of the shooting, police said witnesses described three assailants, two in Halloween masks and one in a bandanna mask who carried a short-barreled rifle. The three were seen driving away in a blue hatchback car.